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Douglas Rain, the Canadian-born actor best known as the voice of HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and its sequel “2010: The Year We Made Contact,” died Sunday at St. Marys Memorial Hospital in St. Mary’s, Ontario, according to CTV News. “Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” Stratford Festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a release. “Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors.

Stanley Kubrick's right-hand man Leon Vitali explains how they executed the classic "elevator of blood" moment in "The Shining" — and why the legendary director refused to be on set during the filming of the scene.

A UK university professor claims to have unearthed a long-lost screenplay by the great Stanley Kubrick. Entitled
Burning Secret , the script is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the acclaimed Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. In Kubrick's adaptation of the story, a suave insurance salesman befriends a 10-year-old boy at a spa resort so he is able seduce the child’s married mother. Kubrick wrote it in 1956 with the American novelist Calder Willingham (
The Graduate ), with…